Awesome game, man. I spent the vast majority of that one thinking, 'Well, no way in hell I'm getting THIS one back', and kept doing... well, actually that's the only thing I CAN do. Chew up clock on offense and sniff out turnovers on defense. J.Joseph with two TDs. Ward didn't entirely embarrass himself, but the Texans' run game was never really a threat without AF.

I was totally guilty of that roughing the passer, hah. Locker had 300 pounds of Keoeatmu or however the hell you spell it giving him a helmet-to-helmet hit well after the screen was away. He'll be getting a call from Mr. Commissioner.

Daniels is my safety valve. Makes for bad habits, though, and things get predictable, but... If Johnson's covered, Daniels. If Jones is open, he'll drop the damn ball. Walter's too slow, he's probably covered. (I think he was like 2 for 17 or some such.)

I think my router sucks Sno. It's in another room hardwired to my dinosaur desktop computer so I'm using the wireless on the PS3 (which seems to be a little sketchy). Time for a reconfig I think. Don't use the desktop much and our laptops lug a little and it's probablly due to the router being off in the toolies. I'll hardwire the PS3 for optimal gaming performance and get a cheapie USB network adapter for the desktop POS.

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Sac>CANI love Sac with all my heart, and wish I were half as handsome as he.

Yep. Saints are available, but in the interest of balance I'd strongly encourage the Jags or the Colts. (All of the above are currently around 3-3, I think.) I'm getting ready to run off to work, can somebody direct Yak to the group/pword post? It's buried in the thread, and I won't be able to get online to do an invite 'til about Monday or Tuesday.

Sorry, Haven't been able to play my game vs. Detroit. had my folks staying with us from out of town, so I had a full time gig playing referee between my wife and mother. If I don't get er done tonight, just go ahead and sim the sumbitch.

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Sac>CANI love Sac with all my heart, and wish I were half as handsome as he.

Finally managed to finish my game without my router shitting the bed. I really need to reconfigure my set up and hardwire my PS3.

I was so freaked out about dropping the connection again that I 'super-simmed' my defense to move it along faster. Turns out my CPU defense sucks the big one as they gave up like 31 points. Had to win it in a shoot-out 38-31.

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Sac>CANI love Sac with all my heart, and wish I were half as handsome as he.

Encouraged by the 35-point second half comeback against the Sammitans, Houston came out and trampled all over the Jaguars. 38-23 Texans (5-3)

Schaub had a ridiculous first half, going 12 for 13 for 140 yards and 3 TDs to go up 28-7 early. He reverted to throwing a couple pics in the second half, but still ended up with a respectable performance.

The Jaguars run defense made Ward look like an All-Pro. 22 carries, 219 yards, 2 TDs. He and Owen Daniels carried the day, with Daniels picking up 7 catches for 83 yards and 2 TDs.

Eeked out a close win against the Vikings, 14-10. Cam Newton continued to show that he can't play worth crap in the rain, which seems to define my most recent games. Luckily. DeAngelo Williams had another huge game and ran for 160 yards on just 19 carries. However it was Jonathan Stewart who, by pure luck (*I* could've gotten 10 yards on the play, Stewart wasn't touched), managed to score a 40 yard touchdown in the 4th quarter. The defense played very well, little Bruce Johnson (5'11 185lbs or maybe 178) made several tackles of AP that were either for loss, no gain, or shy of the first down on 3rd/4th down. Stroud had a huge game, only one sack but he was the first guy to beat his man every time.

Sarlacc, on comparing .NET to Soccer: And why not? It's a bunch of people running around in circles, feigning pain, and never scoring.

5-3, and with the Titans sitting on top of the division, going to be scraping for a Wildcard at best. Looks like that Week 17 rematch against Tenn is be a Game of Import.

WTF Player of the Year So Far: Connor Barwin, giant monster OLB. Dude's a 72 or 73 overall, and has 6 sacks. 6'4"/260. Obliterating QBs.

Disappointments: Schaub. Way too many picks. But, that's just the nature of the game. Noticing that with the league stats. The human players are leading the league in rushing yards and interceptions. Human players' defenders apparently suck at tackling, too.

Also, Foster. Not really his fault, though. Injury.

Best free agent pickups: Giant Tongan, Ma'ake Kemoeatu. Not great stats, but causes some disruption up the middle, enabling Houston's froth of pass rushers to get at the QB. Also, Matt Dodge has a beast leg.

Travtexans win again, getting back into relevance with a win over the 5-2 Browns to go to 6-3 on the season. Talk about your ass-ugly games, though. Texans remained dominant throughout, but Schaub pulled another stupid and threw 3 interceptions. Schaub is leading the league in interceptions, as well as the ability to inspire linebackers to develop the powers of flight and teleportation. My problem feeds directly into Madden's problem. Madden has uber alert and athletic linebackers, and I LOVE to dump the ball over the middle to crossing routes. The result is inevitable.

Anyway, Ward put up another 90-some yard day and the good guys win 10-3 at home against a wildly inefficient and amazingly ugly Madden McCoy.

Just played the ugliest game of Madden in the rain... I won but only because the Madden-gawds felt really bad for me. Witherspoon runs a Cedric Benson fumble 99 yards but there's a flag on the ground. I'm pretty sure it's a holding call against them but you never know... Game was played in the rain and I couldn't complete a pass to save my life except to the opposing defense. Locker is a rookie that can't play in rain and CJ2K is awesome.

Half way through the season the the Titans sit at 7-1 with their one blemish against the mighty TravTexans.

With less than half of Hass's snaps under center, Locker has almost as many yards, more TD and less INTs.

Just won a thriller against the Saints. Freeman threw 2 ints just before the half giving the Saints a short field both times and allowing them to go up by 10. Tampa Bay was able to drive down the field just before the end of the half and get a FG to bring NO's lead down to 7. Neither team could do much of anything through much of the 3rd quarter, until the Bucs got the ball and rode the back of Legarrette Blount all the way to the endzone. From there New Orleans looked to be moving the ball well but the Bucs D stopped them on a critical 3rd down near midfield. A couple of plays and a huge pass from Freeman to Benn set the Bucs up in field goal range with less than a minute left and forced NO to use their first timeout. A few more run plays left the Saints without any timeouts and TB with a 23 yard FG opportunity. The Bucs call a timeout with 10 seconds left, and Connor Barth kicks in the game winning field goal!

Huge win, as I have several human opponents over the next few games and these will be even more challenging.

Texans put up a solid performance and managed to hold on for the win despite the Football Gods repeatedly smiting them. Four injuries over the course of the game, at one point I was playing a 3rd string safety. Schaub continued his unerring ability to throw interceptions that don't seem to be entirely his fault (The best was targeting Johnson in the end zone almost perfectly on a curl. The defender was playing off him ever-so-slightly... Instead of just standing there and catching the pass for the TD, he immediately runs back OUT of the endzone away from the ball, allowing for a perfect spiral into the surprised defender's arms. Tard.)

20-9 Texans in the rain IN Tampa.

Foster's comeback resulted in a 100 yard game, and Andre Johnson snagged six passes for over 100 yards, including an absolutely gorgeous PA streak in which he utterly shredded the coverage.

Things were just not going the Buccs way, At. All.

Meanwhile: WTF is up in the AFC North? Damn near have an all-way tie going on, there.

Epic game Kyle. Easily could have gone either way. I got extremely lucky by getting into FG range to tie it up but you got equally lucky by hitting that hailmary TD to end the first half.

The Panthers were running at whim all over the Titans all day long, but 3 costly turnovers by Cam Newton did them in; one for a pick-6, another that I turned into a FG and another deep in their own endzone in OT which I turned into a 49-yard GW FG.

Titans were pretty much contained all day except for 3 big plays; the pick-6, CJ2K went for a 60+ yard TD run elluding multiple guys and then just outrunning them and the long bomb to Kenny Britt who then go out of bounds to get within FG range to tie it before regulation when I didn't have any time outs left.

All of the games Ive played against others here have been good ones. GG Sammy. One hell of a comeback.

I'm still pissed at my defense. I could've sworn I chose multiple at the start but somehow I ended up with a 3-4 base, kinda annoying, but that wasn't my big issue anyways. I'm pretty sure Sammy and I threw a similar number of "pickable" passes, but he caught his and I dropped mine. Including the play right before the winning FG. I need to get some defenders with some mitts.

So much for 19-0. You brought great pressure all game and that really hurt my deep game (outside of that Hail Mary).

Sarlacc, on comparing .NET to Soccer: And why not? It's a bunch of people running around in circles, feigning pain, and never scoring.